Drupal 7 Social Networking -- Table of Contents -- Drupal 7 Social Networking -- Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgement -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Drupal and Social Networking -- Social Networking: An introduction -- Business logic to social networks -- Examples: Businesses making use of existing social networks and their own social networks -- Dell: Twitter -- NameCheap: Twitter -- BT: Twitter -- Netgear: Custom -- Why not join or use an existing social network? -- Provide a service -- Improve business -- Improve communications -- Existing social networks -- Facebook -- LinkedIn -- MySpace -- Twitter -- Drupal -- What is a CMS? -- What is Drupal? -- Drupal as a social networking platform -- Alternatives to Drupal -- Roll your own -- Elgg -- Hybrid approaches -- DinoSpace! -- Installing Drupal -- Requirements -- Download -- Installation -- Extracting the Drupal files -- Creating the database -- Running the Drupal installer -- Configuring Drupal -- People: Account settings -- System: Site information -- Other configuration options -- People: IP address blocking -- System: Actions -- System: Cron -- Content authoring: Text formats -- User interface: Shortcuts -- Media: File system -- Media: Image styles -- Media: Image toolkit -- Development: Performance -- Development: Logging and errors -- Development: Maintenance mode -- Search and metadata: Search settings -- Search and metadata: URL aliases -- Search and metadata: Clean URLs -- Web Services: RSS publishing -- Regional and language: Regional settings.

Regional and language: Date and time -- Summary -- 2. Preparing Drupal for a Social Networking Site -- How Drupal works -- An abstract framework -- Nodes -- Modules and themes -- Administering Drupal-An overview -- Logging in -- Dashboard -- Content -- Content statuses -- Promoted content -- Sticky content -- Creating content -- Comments -- Structure -- Blocks -- Content types -- Menus -- Taxonomy -- Appearance -- People -- Permissions -- Roles -- Modules -- Configuration -- Reports -- Help -- Content types and taxonomy: A detailed look -- Creating a new content type -- Adding fields to the content type -- Linking taxonomy to the content type -- Customizing how the taxonomy works with the content type -- Test content in action! -- Planning our site -- Static content -- Grouping content -- Starting to build our site -- Using taxonomy -- Creating the vocabulary -- Summary -- 3. User Content: Contributions, Forums, and Blogs -- Our site -- User roles: An important note -- Drupal modules -- Managing comments -- Comments within DinoSpace! -- Forums -- Planning our forum structure -- Creating and managing forums and containers -- Viewing our forums -- Creating a forum topic -- Taxonomies -- Planning: How will roles fit in? -- Setting up and using blogs -- Viewing blogs and the blog menu -- Using the blog -- Collaborative writing -- Creating a book -- Creating pages in the book -- Outline -- Permissions and roles -- Why not grant all permissions? -- Polls -- Adding roles -- Contributions in the form of pages -- Permissions and roles -- Uploaded files -- Roles -- Anonymous role permissions -- Authenticated users -- Additional roles -- Contributors -- Moderators -- Power contributors -- Summary -- 4. Users and Profiles -- What are we going to do and why? -- Getting set up -- Users, roles, and permissions -- User management.

Users: Viewing, searching, sorting, and filtering -- Creating a user -- Editing a user -- Suspending / blocking a user -- Canceling and deleting a user account -- Bulk user operations -- Roles -- Permissions -- Creating customizable user profiles -- Listing your dinosaurs -- Linking to other social network profiles -- Profile in action -- Globally recognized avatars: Enabling Gravatars -- Tracking user activity -- User centric home page -- Account settings -- Summary -- 5. Enabling User Interaction -- DinoSpace!: A review -- Preparation: Installing the modules -- Relationships -- Planning user relationships -- Managing and creating relationships -- Creating a relationship type -- Creating a two-way relationship which requires approval -- Creating a one-way relationship -- Creating default relationships -- Settings -- General settings -- Customizing e-mail notifications -- Customizing on-screen messages -- Sharing content -- Other settings -- Permissions -- Relationships in action -- Befriending users -- Approving requests -- Related user activity stream -- A template for each relationship type -- A rule for each relationship type -- Activity stream in action -- Contacting users -- Groups -- Groups for DinoSpace! -- Using the organic groups module -- Creating a group content type -- Configuring content types -- Formatting groups -- Adding some user context to the group -- Using panels to structure the group page -- Using views to pull in group content -- Creating a group -- Adding content to a group -- Viewing our group -- Commenting on user profiles -- The guestbook module -- What to look out for -- Summary -- 6. Social Seasoning -- Let's prepare our modules -- Encouraging discussion with Disqus -- Register for Disqus -- Sharing content with AddThis -- Leverage other features -- Like this on Facebook -- Enabling PHP in content blocks.

Like this page -- Creating the block -- Tweet this -- Find us on Facebook -- Latest tweets -- Summary -- 7. Module Development: Rapidly Improve your Social Network -- Dinosaur-friendly venues -- Useful resources -- Building our module -- Installation files -- Map installer: dino_friendly_places/dfp_map.install -- Venue installer: dino_friendly_places/dfp_venue.install -- Module information files -- Map information file -- Venue information file -- Module files -- Create the map module file -- Venue: no module file required -- Template files -- Map: node--dino_friendly_places_map.tpl.php -- Venue: node--dino_friendly_places_venue.tpl.php -- Module in action -- Install the module -- Creating a map -- Creating a venue -- Viewing a map -- Viewing a venue -- Summary -- 8. How We Can Design Our Site -- Drupal themes -- Theme management and pre-installed themes -- Bartik -- Garland -- Seven -- Stark -- Contributed themes -- Installing contributed themes -- Customizing the default theme -- Color scheme -- Custom color sets -- Color set preview -- Toggle display -- Logo image -- Shortcut icons -- The basics of creating a theme -- Structure of a theme -- Overriding specific parts of Drupal with a theme -- Creating the .info file -- Rapidly building a theme -- Building a theme properly -- Summary -- 9. Communicating with Our Users -- Getting started -- A look back -- Modules send e-mails too! -- Direct contact with a user -- Mailing lists -- External mailing lists -- Automatic signup on user creation -- Signup for anonymous users -- Alternative e-mailing options -- PHPList -- Simplenews -- Sending a newsletter with simplenews -- Amazon Simple Email Service -- Using content blocks to get our message across -- Using theme customisations to indirectly communicate with our users -- Inactive users: Please come back -- Summary.

10. Deploying and Maintaining Your Social Network -- Installing the modules -- Security -- Security advisories -- Server security -- Software -- Securing the site with a firewall -- Shared hosting precautions -- CAPTCHA -- The CAPTCHA module -- The reCAPTCHA module -- SPAM prevention -- Mollom -- Passwords -- Deploying -- Choosing a domain name -- Registering a domain name -- Popular domain name registrars -- Signing up with a hosting provider -- Choosing a web hosting provider -- Considerations for hosts for social networking websites -- Popular web hosting providers -- Setting the nameservers for the domain -- Creating a database on the hosting account -- With cPanel hosting control panel -- With appropriate privileges on PHPMyAdmin -- Exporting our local database -- Importing our local database to the hosting account -- Changing the database settings -- Uploading the site -- Testing -- Maintenance -- Cron -- Looking up the secure cron URL -- Performing maintenance -- Upgrading Drupal -- Reports -- How can these help? -- Backing up and restoring your social network -- With cPanel -- Restoring the site and database -- Using the command line -- Command-line access and Putty -- Backing up the site and database -- Restoring the site and the database -- Do they work? -- Summary -- 11. Easing Growing Pains -- Basic performance tips -- Introduction to caching and caching options -- NoSQL options -- Can't someone else do it? -- Statistics -- Sending e-mails -- E-mail services -- Hosted Apache Solr search -- Using content delivery networks -- CDN module -- Code improvements and custom modules -- Code profiling -- Slow queries -- Compression -- Server performance and configuration -- Apache -- MySQL -- Alternative web servers -- Scaling our resources -- VPS cloud hosting -- Additional servers -- Adding redundancy to our setup -- Keep an eye out… -- Summary.

12. Promotion, SEO, User Retention, and Monetization Strategies.